AlphaGo’s next move – Chinese Go Grandmaster and world number one Ke Jie departed from his typical style of play and opened with a “3:3 point” strategy – a highly unusual approach aimed at quickly claiming corner territory at the start of the game.

Integrate Your Amazon Lex Bot with Any Messaging Service – Is your Amazon Lex chatbot ready to talk to the world? When it is, chances are that you’ll want it to be able to interact with as many users as possible. Amazon Lex offers built-in integration with Facebook, Slack and Twilio. But what if you want to connect to a messaging service that isn’t supported? Well, there’s an API for that–the Amazon Lex API.

How Our Company Learned to Make Better Predictions About Everything – In Silicon Valley, everyone makes bets. Founders bet years of their lives on finding product-market fit, investors bet billions on the future value of ambitious startups, and executives bet that their strategies will increase a company’s prospects. Here, predicting the future is not a theoretical superpower, it’s part of the job.

Are Pop Lyrics Getting More Repetitive? – In 1977, the great computer scientist Donald Knuth published a paper called The Complexity of Songs, which is basically one long joke about the repetitive lyrics of newfangled music (example quote: “the advent of modern drugs has led to demands for still less memory, and the ultimate improvement of Theorem 1 has consequently just been announced”).

Home advantages and wanderlust – When Burnley got beat 3-1 by Everton at Goodison Park on the 15th April, 33 games into their Premier League season, they’d gained only 4 points out of a possible 51 in their away fixtures. But during this time they’d also managed to accrue 32 points out of a possible 48 at Turf Moor; if the league table were based upon only home fixtures, they’d be in a highly impressive 6th place.

The Simple, Economic Value of Artificial Intelligence – How does this framing now apply to our emerging AI revolution?After decades of promise and hype, AI seems to have finally arrived, – driven by the explosive growth of big data,inexpensive computing power and storage, and advanced algorithms like machine learning that enable us to analyze and extract insights from all that data.